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2024 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1216th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wayne County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 24, 2024 22:15 | May 25, 2024 07:45 | 9h 30m | 5,981 | 15K |
| 2 | September 6, 2024 18:00 | September 6, 2024 20:30 | 2h 30m | 4,400 | 5,861 |
| 3 | May 15, 2024 03:15 | May 15, 2024 05:45 | 2h 30m | 3,564 | 4,194 |
| 4 | November 24, 2024 05:15 | November 24, 2024 13:30 | 8h 15m | 3,447 | 25K |
| 5 | June 24, 2024 18:15 | June 24, 2024 20:45 | 2h 30m | 3,160 | 1,353 |
| 6 | July 1, 2024 04:45 | July 1, 2024 22:30 | 17h 45m | 2,258 | 4,550 |
| 7 | April 11, 2024 14:15 | April 11, 2024 19:15 | 5h | 2,103 | 1,812 |
| 8 | October 24, 2024 13:15 | October 25, 2024 05:45 | 16h 30m | 1,983 | 5,447 |
| 9 | August 14, 2024 12:30 | August 14, 2024 18:00 | 5h 30m | 1,760 | 474 |
| 10 | May 2, 2024 23:15 | May 3, 2024 01:45 | 2h 30m | 1,063 | 810 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 71 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Wayne County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2024 | 2.1 hrs | 1.07 | 56 min | 0.80 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 1.05 | 1.9 hrs | 1.05 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,042 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne County, NC annual power outage report, 2024, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2024/north-carolina/wayne-county